Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — The Reputation of a Standard Article [ARTICLE]

The Reputation of a Standard Article

Is seldom injured by surreptitious rivalry. Imitators of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters have not only lost money by attempting underhand competition with It, but have actually contributed to enhance the estimation in which the genuine medicine is held. The pnblic at large has for many years been acquainted with the ear marks that distinguish the real from the spurious, and cannot be persuaded that other articles sold in a somewhat similar guise are equally good. Fever and ague, constipation, dyspepsia, and liver complaint are not curable by cheap local bitters, eye-opener®, and tonics, but the fact is too well proven and too generally known to admit of conscientious disEute, that for these and other maladies the great onsehold medicine is a safe and thorough remedy. Not only in the United States, bnt in Mexico, South America, and the West Indies, its merits are widely reco nized and its reputation too firmly established to be shaken. If a child has a real talent for music it is a pleasure to have it cultivated. If not it is time and money wasted and becomes a great trial of patience and temper not only to the child, bnt to everybody who is near enough to be afflicted with discordant banging that will never reach true melody. Carlyle had the right idea of it when he wrote: The miserable young woman in the next house to me spends all her yonng, bright days, not in learning to darn stockings, sew shirts, bake pastry, or any art, mystery, or business that will profit herself or others; not even in amusing herself or skipping bn the grass-plots with laughter of her mates; but simply and solely in raging from dawn to dark, to night and midnight, on a hapless piano, which it is evident she will never in this world render more musical than a pair of barn-clappers! The miserable young female!— Ex. A boy may be as dull ,as a farmer’s saw, but it don’t t&kehim long to learn how to pus snuff in the eyes of those who have him in charge. Don't hawk, an I blow, and spit, bat usß Dr. Safe's Catarrh Remedy.